Re: cirrusdrmfb broken with simplefb

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:03 AM, One Thousand Gnomes
<gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > That bug always existed, simplefb is just the first driver to hit it
>> > (vesafb/efifb didn't use resources). I'm aware of the issue but as a
>> > workaround you can simply disable CONFIG_X86_SYSFB. That restores
>> > the old behavior.
>>
>> This looks like a regression, so we'll either need a fix or we'll have
>> to mark CONFIG_X86_SYSFB as CONFIG_BROKEN.
>
> Kernel bugzilla has entries for simplefb breaking both vesafb and matrox
> mga.

Thanks for the hints. I've read through all I could find and tried to
provide some help.

I'm kind of confused, most of them enable CONFIG_X86_SYSFB (which is
'n' by default) but don't read the help text. I did my best to tell
people that this option requires CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE, but if you don't
read the help-text you won't notice that. Don't know what to do about
that..

Thanks
David
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